This happens sometimes: You like the side project more than you like the real deal. Such is the case with Taylor Locke & the Roughs – the four-piece anchored by the Rooney guitarist, along with Chris Price, ex-Like bassist Charlotte Froom and drummer Mikey McCormack. In April, Locke released “Grain & Grape” (including the track […]
Moving Picture Show’s ranks have thinned since they first turned heads at their gigs by entering the stage by romping through crowds as a marching band. Keyboardist Amy Oliver moved away, leaving singer-guitarist Matt Kap, bassist Jeremy Nesse and new drummer Scott Manley to carry on their ’80s radio-inspired exploits. MPS’s second album “Studies Have […]
[Scott Weiland celebrates a birthday today; if you happen to catch Stone Temple Pilots tonight at the Santa Barbara Bowl, give him a shout …] Top show tonight if you can afford the ticket price: ‣ Gorillaz bring their “Escape to Plastic Beach” tour – featuring a guest turn tonight from Lou Reed – to […]
Ross Flournoy was bowed but not broken when his indie-pop band the Broken West disintegrated more than a year ago. “I had no idea what I was going to do,” he said of his year of stewing, soul-searching and, eventually, songwriting. “Being on Merge, it’s not like you break up your band and then you […]
Gus Seyffert is one of those magical players that seems to matriculate to the good stuff. He’s made a fine album as Willoughby, played alongside excellent local artists such as the Bird and the Bee, Mike Andrews, Charlie Wadhams and the Sweet Hurt, produced a slew of others and has an imprint of his own, […]
The big, chiming folk rock of Fullerton quintet the Steelwells went over big at this year’s Orange County Music Awards – the band scored two victories, including best song for “El Capitan.” And there was a nice bonus: Akorn Entertainment got behind the song and produced a very topical video starring some very cardboard characters. […]
Top 5 local shows on a night of interesting local shows: ‣ Frank Fairfield and Simon Stokes – along with members of Spindrift performing as Boy Scout Jamboree, Triple Chicken Foot, Vaud & the Villains, Amanda Jo Williams and Olentangy John (that’s his video of “O! Be Joyful,” above) – perform tonight at the Echoplex […]
You could stand there Saturday night and marvel at the scant artistic progression Interpol has made since its second-wave post-punk milestone “Turn on the Bright Lights” came out in 2002, or you could join the delirious, black-clad masses in convulsing to the New York quintet’s every thunderous rhythm and guitar lick. Or you go a […]
Free Moral Agents have segued gradually from side project to a big deal for Isaiah “Ikey” Owens, the keyboardist of prog-rock deities the Mars Volta. Hearing their forthcoming first album for Chocolate Industries, “Control This!” (due in November), you can see why. The Long Beach-based quintet of Owens, singer Mendee Ichikawa, singer-bassist Dennis Owens, guitarist […]
For those of us who for decades could never get enough of Chrissie Hynde’s voice, there is her new collaboration with Welsh singer-songwriter JP Jones, JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys. They’ve made a pretty good album, “Fidelity!,” and they’ve made made an even better backstory – a 59-year-old rock legend and a 31-year-old folkie […]
